Word: burro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British-Bolivian relations have not always struck so resonant a note. In the 1860s, the Bolivian dictator Mariano Melgarejo tied the British minister on to a burro, face tailward, rode him three times around La Paz's principal plaza because he had slighted the dictator's mistress. Queen Victoria, on being told that British naval guns could never reach landlocked Bolivia, seized a pen, crossed the country off the map, saying: "Bolivia no longer exists...
...rhythmic patter of a burro's feet, mariachis (street singers), gathered around café tables, tell the story...
...burro's very...
...even the peon himself, jolting along on the burro's poop deck, muttered...
Forward or backward, everyone admitted that the burro had come a long way since Friar Juan Zumárraga (who converted the Aztecs to Christianity) brought the first pair from Spain 400 years ago. At the start, the burro served as replacement for the Indian runners who daily brought fresh fish from the coast to the rulers in Mexico City. Later, it carried the silver & gold of Mexico's mines. Now, 1,325,000-strong, Mexico's burro force still brings huge loads of charcoal down from the hills, jugs of pulque from farms to railheads, drags great...